Bacchus
Well-Known Member
About a month and a half ago I cooked up an Irish Blonde. While the wort was boiling, I reached for my bottle of Clorox and it was bone dry. I decided, "What the hell! I'm always talking about how sanitizing is taken to extremes and here's a chance to show, once again, that I'm right." And so I used ZERO sanitzer. I just blasted like mad with hot water.
Tonight I popped the top on my first beer of that batch. It's crisp and clean and has a really nice alcohol punch to it. It was as good as any beer that I've brewed WITH sanitizer!
This makes batch number 9 or 10 that I've brewed successfully without sanitizer.
I post this not to fly in the face of anyone. I post it to make the noobs understand that if I can brew a great batch of beer with "hot water only" sanitizing......they should relax whenever they think they've made some major mistake. Beer brewing ain't as complex as some would have you believe. LOL!!!
Tonight I popped the top on my first beer of that batch. It's crisp and clean and has a really nice alcohol punch to it. It was as good as any beer that I've brewed WITH sanitizer!
This makes batch number 9 or 10 that I've brewed successfully without sanitizer.
I post this not to fly in the face of anyone. I post it to make the noobs understand that if I can brew a great batch of beer with "hot water only" sanitizing......they should relax whenever they think they've made some major mistake. Beer brewing ain't as complex as some would have you believe. LOL!!!